School Counseling for the Twenty-First Century - Hardcover

Baker, Stanley B.; Gerler, Edwin R., Jr.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0130494852 ISBN 13: 9780130494856

Publisher: Pearson College Div, 2003

Synopsis

This comprehensive book takes a balanced approach to presenting the full range of competencies required of professional school counselors. It examines the role of the counselor in today's schools, highlighting the need for counselors to be able to help students learn to function in a society characterized by rapid change, the use of technology, and a global economy. Coverage is built around eleven key competencies, which are carefully tied to three of the most important current initiatives in the school counseling field. Unique to the text is its position as the foundation for the School Counseling Activities Network (www.scan21st.com), which brings graduate students, professors, and practicing school counselors together through the Internet. All components of the book are integrated with this Web site. For future school counselors.

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From the Publisher:

Using a developmental framework and a balanced-approach concept as an organizing theme, this comprehensive exploration of the counseling process covers school counseling for all age ranges -- elementary, middle, and secondary. It focuses on basic counseling functions and competencies, outlines a logical, generic, stepped-helping model, and provides many real-world applications throughout.

From the Back Cover:

This comprehensive text reviews the role of today's school counselor in preparing readers to function in a high-tech global society and to be well-adjusted to cope with its changes and challenges. School Counseling for the Twenty-First Century offers guidance in defining and in enunciating the school counselor's roles and functions more clearly as social changes and socio-economic pressures influence the directions of school programs. Addresses counseling for social change, racism through local action and multicultural counseling, diversity-sensitive counseling for sexual minority youth, and school counselors and their professional identities. Includes sections on avoiding ethical violations, ethical multicultural counseling, making ethical decisions, and sources of ethical consultation, as well as the accountability portfolio idea, the potential for external reviews, and suggestions for enhancing public relations through accountability. Appropriate for those interested in school counseling.

About this edition

• Publisher: Pearson College Div
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0130494852
• ISBN 13: 9780130494856
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 4
• Number of pages: 444